Flight 370

I didn't see the exchange that led to the original thread getting deleted, but the topic itself is within the rules of LL, and is very interesting to most of us.
That said, I guess we'll give it one more try...
Hope Darin and Steve don't mind...

Friend of mine in the service used to be part of a Nato team that counted missles and other weopans in East Germany. So one day they come up a Russian tank short of what there was supposed to be. This was serious. They gave hell to the Russky commanding officer and he investigated. Turns out some soldiers took the tank to a junkyard and sold it for scrap and got drunk on the proceeds. Sometimes it ain't no conspiracy its just people being real dumb.

Nay, those issues on that website are about other certain biilionaires wanting their way. The massive funding of propaganda campaigns over the past 10-45 years puts these issues in the forefront to sway public opinion. Out of respect for LakeLink and the scope of this website I will not get into specifics.

Everyone (everyone who is not a politician or bureaucrat) would be the wiser if they did not rush headlong into the propaganda spewing forth from the weak stream urinal (mainstream journalism). A small amount of memory and education teaches us that the all governments lie to their citizens including the US. Recall the dishonest propaganda of the VietNam war, the wars in the mideast which continue today, the so called Arab Spring, the gassing of Syrian civilians just over a year ago. We never got the truth then why do we think we are getting the truth now? There is only scant objective evidence professionally analyzed in the airliner attack over Ukraine and people are rushing to take sides already based upon the unreliable news reports controlled by politicians with motives unrelated to truth.

If you really want the truth about why the US journalists are trying to blame Russia for the missle launch, you have to go back approx 100 years when Henry Ford and his friends were trying to plant thier industrial roots in Russia. Hint: its got nothing to do with what we learned in grade school, so called godless communism being the enemy of the US. The wars, including the propaganda wars which we are all pawns has everything to do with certain billionaires not getting their way.

It's possible,Dak,to admire some aspects of a person without liking the person...Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses...I doubt Putin is a talented and dedicated fundraiser but he is certainly a strong leader.

When flipping among the major news outlets - CNN,NBC,etc,as well as Fox - this question is being asked all over: Is the level of unrest in the world at present in large part a consequence of the lack of international leadership from the current administration of the United States?

I see Joe Klein also asked the same question in the latest issue of Time. He's been accused of being a cheerleader for our current POTUS. Time is no rightwing rag.

I've heard this lately as well: Is the mainstream media trying to establish some "independence" cred prior to 2016 after 5 1/2 years in lapdog status?

Another question I've heard asked more in the last 12 hours or so while surfing the major news outlets: What was a commercial airliner doing flying over what is essentially a war zone?